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Autumn Fern, Photo CarlisleFlowers Garden Tour Sponsored by Horticulture Society of Maryland, Photo CarlisleFlowers This year’s garden tour sponsored by the Horticultural Society of Maryland offered a glimpse of seven gardens in Baltimore County, Maryland. The beginning of the tour led us into the woods, a canopy of trees with a brook running through the […]
This is the green earth. What beauty to talk about. This summer (2010) we will be writing courses to be downloaded as power point presentations free to the public. The nature courses will be multi-disciplinary, ecological, cultural, sociological and international (if we can fit that all in a 15 minute package!) We welcome your ideas […]
Threatened Garden Click here to view historical and recent photos of Western Hills. In The New York Times on May 12, 2005, Dan Hinkley, founder of the Heronswood nursery in Kingston, Washington, described Western Hills Rare Plant Nursery and Garden as “his personal mecca.” He noted that “there is a realness and trueness and originality to the […]
The number of publications aimed at the garden owner surged in the early 20th century. Many of the most popular garden writers were women, some of whom are still read today. Landscape historian Diane Newbury brought the world of gardening in the 1920s to the fore by spotlighting the works of Louise Beebe Wilder, Marion […]
Helen Dillon writes in her book, “In the Irish Garden” (1998), “It is often said that there are two types of gardener, collector and maker of garden pictures. I can never decide which one I am. In the end the plants must come first…” “I think it is better to go against all gardening rules […]
Biodiversity is the buzz word Biodiversity is the buzz word at the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show 2010. The plants and garden designs are stunning, as always, but one can hear the gentle sounds of bees, or at least bees that should be there. Chelsea underscores that need for biodiversity to sustain our pollinators, […]
